1 W hy do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Why do you take pride in wrong-doing, O powerful man? The loving-kindness of God lasts all day long.

2 Y our tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Your tongue makes plans to destroy like a sharp knife, you who lie.

3 Y ou love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

You love what is bad more than what is good, and you speak lies more than you speak the truth.

4 Y ou love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

You love all words that destroy, O lying tongue.

5 G od will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

But God will destroy you forever. He will pick you up and pull you away from your tent. He will pull up your roots from the land of the living.

6 T he righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

And those who are right will see and be afraid. They will laugh at him, saying,

7 “ Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

“Look, the man who would not make God his safe place, but trusted in his many riches and was strong in his sinful desire.”

8 B ut as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the loving-kindness of God forever and ever.

9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.

I will give You thanks forever because of what You have done. And I will hope in Your name, for it is good to be where those who belong to You are.